An Anchorage landlord has filed a complaint with the Alaska State Ombudsman, raising serious concerns about the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation’s (AHFC) Housing Voucher Program.
The landlord’s issues include frequent overpayments made to landlords, insufficient recovery processes for these overpayments, and AHFC’s alleged noncompliance with the Alaska Landlord Tenant Act (ALTA).
In correspondence with the Ombudsman’s office, the landlord reported that all three of their AHFC tenants had issues with overpayments, leading to a loss of $10,068 in public funds in one instance. The landlord alleges that with over 4,000 tenants in AHFC’s program, such errors may suggest systemic problems, could potentially cost the agency hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars in losses…